FIFA is putting more than three million tickets on sale for the World Cup, and the action will last until the end of the competition on July 19, which is the last chance for fans who still don’t have tickets two months into this tournament.
According to FIFA as of Wednesday night it remained 450 tickets for the match between Croatia and England on June 17 in Dallas at a price of $310. Also, the 242 available tickets for the France-Iraq match on June 22 in Philadelphia were offered at a price of $430. For the United States’ first game against Paraguay on June 12 in Los Angeles, ticket prices ranged from $1,940 (Category 2) to $2,735 (Category 1). The matches of the Iranian national team playing in Los Angeles and Seattle cost from 140 to 500 dollars.
This one the last stage of the sale it opened on Wednesday on the official FIFA.com/tickets website on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will go on sale continuously, including for matches held on the same day, according to FIFA.
To access tickets, customers are directed to the site “waits” and must “get in line”. The wait lasted several hours from the moment the page was opened. And you have to be quick with your ticket selection, because the session closes automatically after 20 minutes.
The cheapest tickets for the first leg between Mexico and South Africa on June 11 cost $1,410, compared to $895 during the previous sales phase.
When asked about the price increase compared to previous stages, a FIFA spokesperson explained that “prices vary due to fluctuating prices“, depending on the match and the demand. “Some tickets may have the same price, while for others the prices may change,” he added.
In total, almost seven million tickets for the competition are on sale. More than three million of them have already been sold during the first three sales phases, including more than a million during a random phase in January and February, according to FIFA.
FIFA expects that it will break the historical record of 3.5 million tickets sold for the World Cup, set during the 1994 edition in which 24 national teams participated. But this summer, the tournament, hosted by the United States of America, Mexico and Canada, welcomes for the first time 48 national teams, for a total of 104 games, 78 of which will be played on American soil.
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